"Instead of DEI, we now have WEI: White, Entitled, and Incompetent. ...

Almost none of the members of Trump’s administration have the needed qualifications or experience for their positions, and it shows. Like Trump, they show almost no understanding of American history or how to implement actual policy besides what Trump wants."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #DEI #woke #diversity #mediocrity #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement

https://www.wearespeaking.net/p/the-choice-meritocracy-or-mediocracy

The Choice: Meritocracy or Mediocracy

The Trump Administration's Mediocracy Equals Incompetence

We Are Speaking
tl;dw: Something of a rant about my frustration that the people who hope to be masters of the universe are less cultured and educated than your average C student at a prep school. #Oligarchs #Mediocrity #Meritocracy #Privilege youtube.com/watch?v=1-Rp...

The Oligarchs are Evil, Venal ...
The Oligarchs are Evil, Venal and Dumb as Hell

YouTube
El Pentágono excluye a fotógrafos por sacar imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El cuento de la criada'"

Al parecer el Gobierno de EEUU cree que el límite del esperpento es todavía ampliable.

El #Pentágono excluye a #fotógrafos por sacar #imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete #Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El #cuento de la #criada'" #TheHandmaidsTale #médiocrity ... www.publico.es/tremending/p...

El Pentágono excluye a fotógra...
El Pentágono excluye a fotógrafos por sacar imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El cuento de la criada'"

Al parecer el Gobierno de EEUU cree que el límite del esperpento es todavía ampliable.

📉🤖 Oh, look! Another treatise on why #academia swapped out rational math for the lazy allure of "good enough" #AI. Apparently, #ImageNet and the irresistible siren call of not specifying goals have won over academia's finest. Way to go, Guy Freeman, for enlightening us on how to achieve #mediocrity in the most complex way possible. 🎓💡
https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html #rationality #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works – Guy Freeman

Someone asked why decision theory stopped being widely used in AI. The answer involves ImageNet, academic departments, and the seductive power of not having to specify your objectives.

Guy Freeman
📚 Behold! Yet another nostalgic ode to an editor who supposedly "built" a literary utopia while casually ignoring the sea of #mediocrity 🌊. Apparently, just by championing #Kerouac et al., he single-handedly transformed the #publishing world in his spare time ⏰.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters #nostalgia #literaryutopia #HackerNews #ngated
The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters

Malcolm Cowley championed Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey—and elevated the status of American writing.

The New Republic

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life, and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-12-04)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82486…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #child #compensation #legacy #livingthroughothers #mediocrity #opportunity #parent #validation #vicarious

🚨🎉 Breaking news: The AI apocalypse is upon us, and it's coming for your research papers! Watch as the academic world quakes in fear while PIs mourn their dwindling empires of grad student labor 🤖📜. But fear not, AI promises to churn out #mediocrity with unparalleled efficiency—at least it's consistent! 😂🧠
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15500 #AIapocalypse #AcademicWorld #ResearchPapers #GradStudentLabor #HackerNews #ngated
Looks Like it is Happening…

For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state…

Not Even Wrong

→ Sunny Days Are Warm: Why LinkedIn Rewards #Mediocrity
https://www.elliotcsmith.com/linkedin-toxic-mediocrity/

“[R]emember that LinkedIn is a website owned by Microsoft, trying to make money for #Microsoft, based on time spent on the site.”

“If writing online matters to you, you’re probably better off starting a blog and building things there. […] [T]here’s less temptation to post nonsense just for likes.”

“Or […] you can always close your laptop for the day and go outside.”

#blog #money #outside #LinkedIn

Sunny Days Are Warm: Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity

I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where people post

Elliot C Smith